1-introduction

Introduction to genomics, DNA as text, and bash.

Assigned reading:

Read the following brief review of genomics:

• Shendure, Jay, Shankar Balasubramanian, George M. Church, Walter Gilbert, Jane Rogers, Jeffery A. Schloss, and Robert H. Waterston. 2017. “DNA Sequencing at 40: Past, Present and Future.” Nature 550 (7676): 345–53. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24286.

Watch the first 20 minutes of the following video introducing unix command line programs:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0&ab_channel=AT%26TTechChannel

Assigned exercises:

Complete the following notebooks located in the notebooks/ directory.

• nb-1.0-jupyter.ipynb
• nb-1.1-bash-genomes.ipynb